Ash Raso: I Risked Our House Deposit, Lost My Supplier Overnight & Hit Six Figures in Four Hours with Capsule Wardrobe (Part 2)
About this episode
Ash Raso shares her journey of launching Capsule Wardrobe, overcoming challenges, and achieving rapid success in the fashion industry.
What happens when you spend eight years in a career that was never really yours? You pivot - and you build something the world actually needs. For our first episode of Season 3 of Top of Mind, we sit down with Ash Raso, the founder of Capsule Wardrobe, a fashion brand that is less than a year old and already reshaping the way women think about getting dressed. Ash gets radically honest about her ADHD diagnosis on the eve of her brand launch, losing her entire supply chain overnight due to US tariffs, risking her and her husband's house deposit on the business, and why she believes embarrassment is the price of entry. She also shares the exact marketing blueprint she used to build an email list of 10,000 warm leads before she even had a product to sell. This is a masterclass in building with conviction when the odds aren't in your favour. In this episode we cover: How Ash's ADHD diagnosis two months before launch nearly derailed everything - and the reframe that changed it all Why she spent eight years as a property developer, risked her house deposit on a fashion label, and hasn't looked back Hitting six figures in four hours on launch night - then losing her entire supplier…
People in this episode
Guest: Ash Raso
Topics covered
- entrepreneurship
- fashion
- marketing
- ADHD
- business strategy
- pivoting careers
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Capsule Wardrobe, Gambit Collective
Places: US
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